The bullet journal is the perfect place to create lists of all sorts. Some examples include:
Favorite songs
If you’re like me, your favorite songs are changing all the time. I used to create my own minidisc mixes, burned cds, and yes, even mixtapes on cassette of my favorite songs. Nowadays you can always make a YouTube Spotify playlist… but it’s nice to create a tangible copy of your current favorite songs, as well. It’ll add personality and a sense of time to your bullet journal, and it’s also just fun!
Gratitude log
Jotting down the things you are thankful for can have many benefits. When you’re having a tough day, you can refer back to your gratitude log and be reminded of the good things in your life.
You can keep a daily gratitude log, where you try to write something down every day, or you can just add to it whenever you feel like you have something very special you want to remember.
The more you remember the good things in your life, the more they’ll stay with you, and you’ll have a more positive attitude overall.
Affirmation log
An affirmation log is where you write down the positive things about you. Maybe you’ve heard the saying, “you are your own harshest critic?”
It’s not always easy to maintain a positive self-image, and that’s where an affirmation log can help. Here, you’ll note down all the things you appreciate and love about yourself. It can be anything. You can write about your good health, that you love being creative, that you are someone who always cares deeply about others, anything. Anything about you that’s positive – write it in your affirmation log.
If you feel like you’re not good enough in some way, just come back to your affirmation log and re-read all these truths.
Goals
Sometimes it’s just helpful to brainstorm all your goals in one place. I like to do this when I’m having a particularly bad day. I turn to a blank page and write down all the things that I feel would make my life better. All the things I wish I could accomplish if only I were in a better mindset or mood.
Later, I can come back to the list and see if there’s anything worth building on. It actually helps me sort through the emotional noise that sometimes clutters up my thinking, so I can get to the real worthwhile things I want to continue spending time thinking about or pursing.
Books read/want to read
If you read a lot of books, it can be hard to keep track of what you read over the course of the year. Also, if you include the dates when you started and finished a book (technically turning your list into a tracker), you might notice when you’ve forgotten to finish a book you liked, or that you’ve been reading way more (or way less) than what you thought.
Reading is one of the most efficient ways of acquiring new knowledge. So, if you’d like to read more, start tracking your reading in your bullet journal and get going!
Movies watched/want to see
This is another fun list you can add to your bullet journal if you love watching movies. As you eventually watch the movies on your “want to see” list, you can rate them, make note of the director or year of the film, etc.
Projects you want to try
You might sometimes get a really good idea, but at a bad time. You can write this down in the bullet journal to come back to later when you have more opportunity to pursue new projects.
Wishlist
Do you ever find yourself thinking, “one of these days, I gotta get a new ______” or “oh I REALLY wish I could buy a ________ someday!” ?
Take a note of these thoughts by adding them to a wishlist page in your bullet journal. From there, you can either decide if something’s worth saving up for, or just remember what to say when your aunt calls and says, “what do you want for your birthday?”
You may even write some things down and later look back at them, realizing that you no longer desire them. In this sense, keeping a wishlist in your journal can help you to waste less money and live more intentionally.
Quotes
Everyone, whether they’ll admit it or not, has favorite quotes. You can easily incorporate your favorite quotes into your bullet journal on their own special spread, or scatter them throughout your journal at random. It’s a fun way to make your bullet journal more personalized and help you keep in touch with your principles and the things that inspire you.
…. and here are even more collection ideas:
Goal Plans
The bullet journal is a fantastic tool for taking action on your goals. You can plan your goals on their own pages using rapid-logging to write down all the steps you need to achieve the goals. Then, you can schedule the tasks to your future log, and then monthlies.
Bullet journaling will help you stay on track – if you fall behind, you can migrate uncompleted tasks to future monthly logs.
Brain Dump
The brain dump page is basically a list of any random thoughts you have on a page. You create a brain dump as a way to extinguish the feeling of being overwhelmed.
Once you feel like you’ve “dumped” everything on your mind on to the page, you can look it over one by one and decide which things are worth worrying about, and which things are not worth your time.
You can use the rapid-logging techniques I talked about earlier in a brain dump. It’ll help you distinguish between tasks, things you want to schedule, or just random notes.